Summary
Join Aperia Solutions, a leader in SaaS solutions for the Payments and Compliance industries. Aperia is a Texas-based fintech and managed consultancy firm that creates custom SaaS applications and other software-based solutions for the payments, banking, and processing industry. Founded in 1999, Aperia offers business intelligence, risk management, compliance, and customer intelligence platforms. With offices in Dallas, Washington DC, and Vietnam, Aperia is a fast-paced, global organization that strives to improve efficiency in compliance, risk, and customer service operations. Aperia’s clients include banks, processors, payment facilitators, merchant service providers, independent sales organizations, and government entities. A career at Aperia promises a great challenge, culture, and opportunities to forge your own path.
The Project Manager is responsible for planning, tracking, and managing internal and external projects across the enterprise. The role of the Project Manager will report directly to the Director, Managed Resources.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Organize and facilitate project planning, host and attend daily stand-up meetings, participate in sprint reviews, lead and play an active role in lessons-learned and retrospectives, active participation and evaluation of sprint and release planning towards delivery of a cohesive project schedule, participate in demos and other Scrum-related meetings
- Conduct routine planning sessions with the Scrum Master, Client Engagement Manger, and Product Owner for alignment on project plan and roadmap
- Evaluate sprint/release progress as relative to the project plan
- Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility
- Leads Projects as assigned with ability to properly initiate, plan, execute, control and close work to meet outlined success criteria.
- Produces Project Plans, Estimates, and Deliverables consistent with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies.
- Monitor and report on Project Status, Project Milestones and Issues
- Prepare estimates of Effort (EOE) and evaluate Estimates to Complete (ETC)
- Interfaces with internal Business Analysts, Technical Personnel, and Management to assess and determine resource requirements and resolve conflicts
- Defines standards for Project Management documentation, measurements, and reporting
- Supports project team with project deliverables as necessary
- Interfaces with Aperia Solutions clients as necessary regarding project status and issues
QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years’ experience in project management and project experience in a leadership role, managing resources to define schedules and deliverables in an Agile environment
- 3+ years’ experience in people management, overseeing a team of direct reports
- Experience in delivery of technical software solutions using SDLC methodologies that support Waterfall, Iterative, and Agile models
- Familiarity with Project Management concepts, deliverables, and techniques
- Demonstrated experience in producing project tracking documentation
- Experience in conflict resolution
- Process orientation with emphasis on measurement and feedback
- Ability to work in fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Exceptional organization skills and ability to multi-task
- Demonstrated leadership in motivating teams to high performance
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills at the business and technical level
- Strong work ethic, commitment and team work
- Ability to work independently with little supervision
- Able to work flexible hours, especially during critical project schedules
TRAINING AND CERTIFICATIONS
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is a plus
- BA or BS Degree preferred
Eligibility Requirements
- Must be willing to submit to a background investigation and drug test as part of the selection process.
- This position is not eligible for sponsorship.
Job Type
- Full-time
Schedule
- Monday to Friday
Benefits
- Health insurance & Health savings account
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Disability insurance
- Childcare assistance
- Education reimbursement
- Fitness membership
- Volunteer time off
This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. An employee may also perform other reasonable related business duties as assigned by their immediate supervisor or management. Principals only.
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What We Do
Your success is our objective.
We have more than a decade of service providing business intelligence solutions and applying extensive experience and knowledge to your business requirements.
From its roots in the finance, banking, and the payments industry, Aperia expanded to become the preeminent provider of ETL, BI, and hosted solutions in a variety of industries. Aperia platforms scale with industry, processing massive volumes on time. The Software as a Service (SaaS) platforms support millions of end users creating billions of transactions per day, all with the speed and reliability required for business.
The company’s management combines more than a century in finance, business consulting, rapid growth, and governance, as well as business intelligence, the company’s core function.
Aperia knows that data holds power and providing the precision tools to release that power from data in any format is our passion, skill, and talent.
